Australian National Maritime Facilities: Ports and Ferry Terminals

A web service provides spatial locations for major ports and public ferry terminals within Australia and its Territories. The data is provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated on 2026-06-05. Feature attribution complements the spatial data.

Use Cases

• Map maritime infrastructure density based on spatial locations of ports and terminals.
• Analyze public ferry network accessibility based on terminal locations.
• Integrate port locations into supply chain or logistics models based on the spatial dataset.

Strengths

• Data covers Australia and its Territories, providing national scope.
• Includes both major ports and public ferry terminals, offering a specific facility type focus.
• Last updated on 2026-06-05, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-05 06:52:44.293232; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia and its Territories